This recent news story highlights the weakening American influence in the Middle East. Arabs and Iranians don’t like each other very much because of historical and ethnic reasons. Arab leaders, particularly Sunni leaders, have expressed many times their concern about potential Iranian hegemony in the Middle East.
Because America’s reliability as a check on Iranian influence is seriously in question (toothless sanctions, deadlines that come and go with no discernible difference in policy), any rational leader in the Middle East would have to look at his nation’s self-interest and find some accommodation with the Iranian regime.
This seems to be happening now. The Arab nations have begun to hedge their bets. The King of the South is taking one more step toward its destiny while the United States government preoccupies itself with domestic squabbles and dissing allies.
Another interesting analysis here:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/can-irans-accelerating-nuclear-program-be-stopped
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